Mekong Delta urged to step up paddy farming
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has called for provinces in the Mekong Delta to expand paddy farming in areas with favorable weather conditions given positive projections for outbound sales of the staple food later this year. With positive market forecasts by the VFA, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh said provinces in the Mekong Delta should widen their paddy farming areas for the summer-autumn and autumn-winter crops to offset the rice output reduction in the 2015-2016 winter-spring rice crop.
